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An Act to extend the Laws of the United States relating to Customs, Commerce, and Navigation over the Territory ceded in the United States by Russia, to establish a Collection District therein, and for other Purposes.

An Act to extend the Laws of the United States relating to Customs, Commerce, and Navigation over the Territory ceded in the United States by Russia, to establish a Collection District therein, and for other Purposes.

Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase, the Customs Act was the first legislation to be enacted. This act extended customs, commerce, and navigation laws, and prohibited the importation or use of firearms or liquor. It also gave the Secretary of the Treasury jurisdiction over the fur trade and prohibited the killing of fur seals. Fur sealing regulation was reserved for congress. - Commentary by Ronald Lautaret Physical description: 3pgs. Source: 15 Stat. 240

Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase, the Customs Act was the first legislation to be enacted. This act extended customs, commerce, and navigation laws, and prohibited the importation or use of firearms or liquor. It also gave the Secretary of the Treasury jurisdiction over the fur trade and prohibited the killing of fur seals. Fur sealing regulation was reserved for congress. - Commentary by Ronald Lautaret Physical description: 3pgs.

CHAP. CCLXXIII. - An Act to extend the Laws of the United States relating to Cus- toms, Commerce, and Navigation over the Territory ceded in the United States by Russia, to establish a Collection District therein, and for other Purposes.

[in margin]
Customs, &c.
laws of the
United States
extended to ter-
ritory ceded to
the United States
by emperor of
Russia.
See post/, p. 539.

CHAP, CCLXXIII. - An Act to extend the taws of the United States relating to Cus-
toms, Commerce, and Navigation over the Territory ceded to the United States by Russia,
to establish a Collection District therein, and/or other Purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House a/Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the laws of the United
States relating to customs, commerce, and navigation be, and the same are
hereby, extended to and over all the mainland, islands, and waters of the
territory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia by treaty
concluded at Washington on the thirtieth day of March, anno Domini
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, so far as the same may be applicable
thereto.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all of the said territory, with its
ports, harbors, bays, rivers, and waters, shall constitute a customs col-
lection district, to be called the district of Alaska, for which said district
a port of entry shall be established at some convenient point to be desig-
nated by the President, at or near the town of Sitka or New Archangel,
and a collector of customs shall be appointed by the President, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall reside at the said
port of entry, and who shall receive an annual salary of two thousand
live hundred dollars, in addition to the usual legal fees and emoluments
of the office. But his entire compensation shall not exceed four thousand
dollars per annum, or a proportionate sum for a less period of time.

[in margin]
Regulations
for the nationali-
vation of vessels
owned by resi-
dents of the
ceded territory.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted. That the Secretary of the Treasury
be, and he is hereby, authorized to make and prescribe such regulations
as he may deem expedient for the nationalization of all vessels owned by
actual residents of said ceded territory on and since the twentieth day of
June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and which shall
continue to have been so owned up to the date of such nationalization,
and that from any deputy collector of customs upon whom there has been,
or shall hereafter be, conferred any of the powers of a collector under and
by virtue of the twenty-ninth section of the " Act further to prevent
smuggling, and for other purposes" approved July eighteen, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, the -Secretary of the Treasury shall have power
to require bonds in favor of the United States in such amount as the said
Secretary shall prescribe for the faithful discharge of official duties by
such deputy.

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